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           See also   Bush Administration Lies  for the history of lies for war

• 3/24/08    Why Did American Public Believe So Many Lies?  Editor & Publisher analyzes how Administration spread its lies and how media promoted them and failed to verify and question
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• 8/1/07  Libby & the Intent to Destroy Iraq  all planned
• 5/26/06 Bush Blair Concede Iraq Mistakes   including dismissal of whole army, police, civilian government infrastructure-- opposed by Generals   We argue that it could not have been such stupidity, that it was intentional Likud plan implemented by its ally Douglas Feith (Rumsfeld deputy) to intentionally bring about chaos --Feith also helped torpedo Oslo accords -- See  All Roads Lead to Feith  Ed. 
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• 10/20/05  Powell's Aide Details How Cheney-Rumsfeld Started War  how got around government normal procedures
• 7/31/05   How Lies About African Uranium Promoted in Washington   to start war
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• 6/26/05  U.S. General Admits Advance  Extensive Bombing before the war  to soften up Iraqi defenses
• 5/29/05  RAF-US Bombing Raids Tried to Goad Saddam into War
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• 5/16/05   The Downing Street Memo  Bush Planned War from Beginning --no connection to 9/11 & White House Iraq Group
• 3/26/05  CIA Doubts & Warnings to Powell Dismissed by Administration Hawks
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• 7/9/04   Defectors Stories Embellished with Lies --coached by Iraq National Congress (Chalabi) before debriefings--CIA relied upon same--had no direct intelligence on Iraq (in the past relied upon British and Israeli intelligence, ed.)
• 3/24/04 Lies About African Uranium Forgery --obvious if White House had cared to examine
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• Evangelicals a Major Support for War   Trust Bush because he uses their language
• Empire Plans Began with First Iraq War --planned from beginning to find excuse to prevent downsizing military after collapse of communism WASH POST ----Was Iraq "set-up?" -- Remember April Glaspie ??
• Cheney's Role in Starting War
• Spies Who Pushed for War--Direct Access to White House from Sharon  Even Mossad bypassed because information unverified
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• Standard of Proof For Weapons Drops  various Bush-Cheney quotes from before war
• Against War "Quotes"    from famous leaders
• True-False Test on Iraq -check your facts
• Fake Evidence On Iraq Nukes Used by Bush in State of the Union Speech         and many other unproven points
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• Starting War in Iraq a crime, says Vatican
• Sharon's War -Novak on Hagel's Report
• Remembering Washington's Lies from First Iraq War --LA TIMES
• War on Terrorism --A revisionist Account interesting conspiracy theory from THE LAST DITCH
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• Bush Clings to Dubious Accusations
• Answering Bush Arguments (& Mis-Statements)   Point by Point
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• Zbigniew  Brzezinski Outlines Iraq Attack Questions & Risks
• + Bush Foreign Policy and Failing Stock Market
• al Qaeda & Saddam not allies, but enemies --Bush says equal
• + Military-Industrial Lobby -guts arms control treaties so as to push new weaponry--retired generals, think tanks, wars
• Amateur Hour at the White House ignorance of the world and consequences     
•  Bush as Capt. Ahab
• Iranian Gas, not Iraqi Apparently Killed Kurds --CIA Iraq Chief during war--main argument for Bush war--NY TIMES
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• Billions for Bombs, Little for Rebuilding = 300 milion for Afghans--Washington promises- doesn't deliver  NY TIMES
•   $26 Billion Offered Turkey to Support  War --loan guarantees rarely repaid -Turks want it in writing, promises unkept after last war.
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• Terror Threat Still Massive --WASH. POST report --while Washington goes on making more enemies of billion Moslems   
• U.S. Policies Abroad Create Hostility to Washington Which Helps Terrorists --USA TODAY 
• America's Nuclear Hypocrisy --Bush violates Nuclear Proliferation Treaty-----Int. Herald Tribune
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• Bin Laden--Hussein Link Hazy new evidence & questions about Powell's basic accusation and truthfullness
• Understanding Bush + Iraq Discrepancies
• U.S. Urges Citizens to Leave Gulf States --fear of anti-American terrorist reprisals, Kuwait schools close  and Indonesia
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• Iraq Weaponry Mostly Unknown Washington Post Analysis
• Is Iraq a Threat to America? by Scott Ritter, former arms inspector
• War without Evidence &  USA TODAY on false evidence
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• Iraq is not a Threat + Other Halliday Wisdoms on U.S. Policies
• Lies About Iraq Jude Wanniski on the gassing of Kurds---1.4 million dead Iraqis--was U.S. public suckered to support attacking Iraq?
• UN Allows Iraq Funds to Rebuild Oil, Electric Generating--Euros oblige U.S. to give in--NY TIMES